Of course, another tool that almost always works fairly quickly is Interlibrary Loan!

The Gates Foundation is serious about wanting the work it funds to be openly available and reusable in the world. Last month they announced successful negotiations with Science and other AAAS journals to allow publication with a CC-BY license which AAAS previously did not allow. Gates’ newest announcement is a new journal option for open access sharing by its researchers to be called Gates Open Research. Another funder, the Wellcome Foundation, did the same thing with Wellcome Open Research.

Preregistration because the same data should not be used to both create and test a hypothessis

Registered Reports featuring peer review after the Design stage of research instead of after the Writing stage; currently you can win a $1,000 prize for publishing the results of your preregistered research.

OA2020 in the US: Some US universities have been Signing the OA2020 Expression of Interest. It involves “repurposing existing funds or infrastructure that previously had been allocated to purchase subscription journals.” Their rationale and “roadmap” are worth reading if you are interested in this. Max Planck Digital Library launched OA2020 to foster “large-scale implementation of free online access to, and largely unrestricted use and re-use of scholarly research articles” by the year 2020.